Sony’s groundbreaking robot dog is back with some new tricks. Equipped with an artificial intelligence boost for 2018, Aibo can now recognize and respond to multiple family members. And with its wireless cloud connectivity, it can store and process everything that it learns from living with you. Caveat emptor.
A few years after a 2002 episode of Sex and the City revealed the electric neck massager’s cultish adoption as a vibrator, Hitachi dropped its brand from the device. But only in name: the Magic Wand—in service since the late-1960s—likely remains the best-known product stateside made by the $33.5 billion Japanese company. (Hitachi makes everything from aircraft engines to defense equipment, but perhaps nothing as personally stimulating.) Though sex therapists and fans have extolled the Wand’s virtues by analogizing it to cars (the Cadillac, the Rolls Royce), it more closely resembles a microphone, with a white plastic shaft—the wand—and a vibrating head—presumably, the magic.
The Regency’s pocket radio was the first consumer gadget powered by transistors, ushering in an age of high-tech miniaturization. A post-WWII innovation developed by Texas Instruments (which had been making devices for the Navy) and Industrial Development Engineering Associates (which previously put out television antennas for Sears), the $49.95, 3-by-5-inch, battery-powered portable was built on technology developed by Bell Labs. From the transistors that amplified the radio signal to the use of printed circuit boards that connected the components to the eye-catching design, many factors conspired to make the TR-1 a holiday must-buy after its November 1954 launch. And as revolutionary as all this tech was, it only scratches the surface of how the Regency — by ushering in truly portable communications — changed the world overnight.
Interrogez n’importe quel fan d’Apple et il vous dira que les téléphones Android ne pourront jamais rivaliser avec les iPhone. Si c’était peut-être vrai avant, ce n’est plus tout à fait vrai depuis le lancement du Pixel XL, le tout nouveau téléphone fabriqué par le géant Google. Voilà maintenant plusieurs semaines que je l’essaie. Voici ce que j’en ai pensé. Lire plus…
Like the wonderful woman who brought you into this world, the $222 Mother watches everything you do. The station with a creepy name — and even creepier glowing eyes — keeps track of a bunch of proprietary sensors called Cookies. The Cookies can be adhered to almost anything to track movement, temperature, and frequency. A library of apps makes sense of the movement and presents you with data based on what you’re monitoring with your Mother and Cookies. Maybe if you like Mother enough, you’ll start calling it mom. The Mother ships (with four cookies) starting in March. — Roberto Baldwin
LG kicked things off on Sunday with a TV from the realm of science fiction — a 65-inch 4K OLED display that rolls into a tube, like an upside down window shade. Imagine it at the foot of your four-poster bed or the end of your luxury bath. We can dream that this futuristic boob tube will hit the market soon, but LG hasn’t announced pricing or availability, let alone an explanation of how the thing actually works.
La brosse magique à cane pour fourrure fait du nettoyage une brise à cause de l’action à double face. Elle nettoie deux fois plus rapide que les autres brosses. Avec un seul plongeon, les deux côtés se nettoient rapidement.
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Appareils de comptoir pour préparer des cocktails. Dans le sillage du nouvel engouement pour la mixologie nous arrive l’équivalent pour le cocktail de ce que Nespresso a fait pour le café. Eh oui, le barman-robot est arrivé. Le premier barman informatisé de la planète est contrôlé par une application et prépare des cocktails parfaits en quelques secondes. Bien sûr, il est peu gadget, mais ce type de machine pourrait être une façon amusante (et pratique) d’étancher la soif des invités à une grande réception.
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La réflexion continue que porte Innis sur des siècles d’histoire et sur l’essor et le déclin des civilisations ne lui permet pas de s’intéresser au présent, ni de se préoccuper des gadgets technologiques actuels.
There were MP3 players before the iPod, sure, but it was Apple’s blockbuster device that convinced music fans to upgrade from their CD players en masse. The iPod simultaneously made piracy more appealing, by letting people carry their thousand-song libraries in their pockets, while also providing a lifeline to the flailing music industry with the iTunes Store, which eventually became the world’s biggest music retailer. The iPod’s importance extends far beyond music. It was an entire generation’s introduction to Apple’s easy-to-use products and slick marketing. These people would go on to buy MacBooks, iPhones and iPads in droves, helping to make Apple the most valuable technology company in the world.
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